How to Deal with Female Traitors (1861)

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I found this in the files this evening, a cartoon from Harper's Weekly from October 26, 1861, from when the Civil War was but half a year old or so and there was still three and a half years of fighting to go. This was a modest suggestion on what to do with female traitors--the sections are pretty self-explanatory, and I've provided a transcription for them if difficult to read in the original:

The captions:

"Let them See but not touch all the latest noveltiesin Hats, Dry Goods, etc."

"Send them to the Alms House to nurse refractory babies"

"Have the fashionable intelligence read in their hearing to their intense aggravation"